The difference between weathering and erosion is:
a. weathering causes a quick change in landforms and erosion causes a slow change in landforms.
b. weathering breaks rocks into sediments and erosion moves sediment from one place to another.
What is B?
100
Small pieces that break off of rocks.
What is sediment?
200
Mountains, lakes and other surface features of the land.
What are landforms?
200
When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.
The difference between erosion and deposition is:
a. erosion moves sediment from one place to another and deposition is a physical feature on the Earth.
b. deposition is the process of dropping , or depositing , sediment in a new location and erosion is the process of moving sediment from one place to another.
What is B?
200
Pieces of the earth's crust that move at the speed your nails grow.
What are tectonic plates?
300
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
300
Weathering over long periods of time breaks rock into ____________ pieces.
What is small or smaller?
300
Erosion can change the shape of the land faster than a volcano can. True or False.
What is False?
300
Name a difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering makes earth materials smaller, and erosion moves it?
300
A growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
400
The piling up or dropping off of earth materials
What is deposition?
400
Canyons are carved out by _________________.
What is rivers/water erosion?
400
Earth's tectonic plates cause...
What is the formation of mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes?
400
The differences between the formation of a delta and a dune
What is deltas are formed when eroded sediment travels down a river and is deposited at the river's mouth and dunes are formed when sand is eroded by the wind and deposited elsewhere.
400
A landform that can occur when plates spread (divergent), collide (subvergent), or have a weakened area (hot spot).
What are volcanoes?
500
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land.
What are glaciers?
500
Name five agents of fast and/or slow earth changes.
What are wind, water, ice/glaciers, tectonic plates, earthquakes, volcanoes?
500
Fresh Pond is an example of a kettle hole. How was Fresh Pond formed?
What is...Fresh Pond was once a glacier. Over time deposition caused soil to deposit around the glacier. When the glacier finally melted it was surrounded my deposited sediment and became Cambridge's fresh water pond.
500
The similarities and differences between a plateau and a plain
What is both plains and plateaus are both flat areas of land; the main difference between plain and plateau lies in their elevation? A plateau is a flat land that is raised high above the ground, while a plain is a flat, low-lying area.
500
The landform formed by a volcano collapsing in on itself and filling with rainwater and melted snow over a long period of time.